Follow the tutorial Version Control with Git on Software Carpentry website.
Summary of useful Git commands
Create a new repository:
git init
Stage files for addition to the repository:
git add <filenames>
Commit staged files:
git commit -m "your brief commit message goes here"
Other useful commands:
git status # tells you what files are staged, which ones have been modified, are new,... )
git log # view the commit log
git diff # view file content differences
Working with a remote repository on GitHub:
git push
git pull
Basis collaboration workflow:
- update your local repo with
git pull origin master, - make your changes and stage them with
git add, - commit your changes with
git commit -m, and - upload the changes to GitHub with
git push origin master
Graphical Git
Our lectures will center on using Git terminal commands since that is a good way to learn the fundamentals of git. Also, knowing the terminal commands well will be useful when you are working on an HPC server. However, there are also graphical git clients that offer extended functionality. Here are two freely available ones: